Finley, Alex: - Alex Finley is a former officer of the CIA's Directorate of Operations, where she served in West Africa and Europe. Before becoming a bureaucrat living large off the system, she chased puffy white men around Washington, DC, as a member of the wild dog pack better known as the Washington media elite. Her writing has appeared in Slate, Reductress, Funny or Die, POLITICO, Vox, the Center for Public Integrity, and other publications. She has spoken to the BBC, C-SPAN's The Washington Journal, CBC's The National, Sirius XM's Yahoo! Politics, France24, the Spy Museum's SpyCast, and other media outlets.Follow her on Twitter: @alexzfinleyalexzfinley.com